I am looking for a good deer tracking dog. Not one for chasing deer, but if I wound a deer and can't find it, something that I can put on its trail. I was thinking beagle, or blue tick. Maybe a cross breed of a beagle & bloodhound. I had a guy bring out 2 Springer Spaniels. For deer? ok. Does anybody have a favorite type dog for tracking & trailing deer?
Fri, 2010-10-15 20:32
Tracking Dog
Fri, 2010-12-24 14:28
#1
not much experience
I don't know what type would be best for tracking but I know that any dog is better than no dog at all.
We have scottish terriers. They are simply not tracking dogs in any traditional setting.
But when my son shot a squirrel that I saw fall from the tree and neither one of us could find, I called the dog over and she went to sniffing.
Within 5 minutes, she was standing still wagging adn looking at us with a dead squirrel at her feet about 20 yards from where I had seen him fall. The little bugger had enough left in him to run clean out of the area that my son and I had been searching.
So by all means get a good tracking dog, but if you don't have a regular tracking breed, don't be afraid to try a non-traditional breed either.
They might just surprise you. I know mine did!
Fri, 2010-12-24 23:02
#2
If all I am looking to do is
If all I am looking to do is track a blood line, I use me wife's little corgi cross dog. The dern thing wont retrive, or point or even move fast enough to flush, but she can follow a blood trail threw just about anything, and will sit and eat on anything she finds till you catch up and chase her off it.
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